On 6/10/2013 2:08 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: > Am 10.06.2013 um 16:59 schrieb Dave<[email protected]>: > >> Michael, what do you mean by "get LinuxCNC into more distributions"? >> Do you mean that getting away from Ubuntu will allow operation on non-PC >> based hardware? >> > no - Charles already covered everything there's to say really > > all I'm suggesting is: there need to be no fundamental difference between > installing, say, OpenOffice, and LinuxCNC, without the need to do magic > incantations in /etc/apt/sources.list and then some > > that is huge exposure (read as 'promotion') as it completely drops the bar to > giving LinuxCNC a spin. Right now you better be very determined to try it > out. That hurdle will go away if we manage things right. > > -- > > it somehow looks LinuxCNC is intimately tied to 'Ubuntu', that's just not the > case > > what it is really tied into is the LiveCD, which is a workaround needed > because LinuxCNC never made it _into_ a major distro (as opposed to _running > on_) > > -m > >
Thanks Michael, Charles ... I understand and agree that would be a big move forward. OK.. next question.... what is preventing LinuxCNC from being added to the Ubuntu repositories as a sim build as it is now? Is there definitely a license issue or do we "suspect" there may be a license issue? Chris wrote: >>Keeping in mind even if at this moment no one here is willing or able to fight something like this classichttp://jmri.sourceforge.net/k/summary.shtml << I don't know how you can prevent someone like Katzer from trying to take advantage of an opensource software package. Sometimes bad things happen. I read that link and I don't see where JMRI dropped the ball in any particular place. Katzer simply tried to take advantage of the situation, everyone ran up a huge legal bill and Katzer lost. Yet JMRI still has a big legal bill left over. I've been caught up in the legal system in this country (USA) before and it is not fun. Dave Cole ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
